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Welcome to HS&P. We are an independent, integrated relationship marketing agency.

It's a place where thinking stimulates creativity. Better thinking means better results.

We're big on measurement, so much so that we're happy to be paid by our results. What do you think? If you like the sound of that, then join the thinking.

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Time bandits

Category: My tuppence | 06th Jan 2009

Three things I know:

When you see a police-man you always feel guilty, even if you haven’t been bad.
Time is very precious.
Buses do not run on time.

Since the demise of the Routemaster and adoption of a...

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Think before you speak

Category: My tuppence | 05th Jan 2009

I’ve never understood why there needs to be so many designs for glasses these days – so few of them are any good. Surely all you need are your black rims, sliver rims and rimless, and that would do. Although not being a glasses...

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20% off for 20% more stress

Category: My tuppence | 19th Dec 2008

Don’t you just love Christmas? The same annoying songs, writing all your cards only to find you don’t know any of your friends’ addresses, trying to see (or avoid) all the family in the space of 48 hours, eating too much,...

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Two wheels good. Four wheels bad.

Category: My tuppence | 16th Dec 2008

The chrome and glass monolith that houses HS&P is in Oxford Circus, in the heart of London's glittering West End. And that particular corner of the metropolis is administered by those Kings-Of-Joined-Up-Thinking, Westminster City Council.

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Credit crunch Christmas cards

Category: My tuppence | 12th Dec 2008

Ingredients:
1 child with orange hair (Gilbert)
Kitchen table
Coloured paper
Coloured cardboard
Scissors (child friendly)
Paintbrushes (Selection of sizes)
Paint (primary...

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Social lending: the new building society?

Category: My tuppence | 10th Dec 2008

Another set of depressing financial statistics may herald the re-birth of mutuality. Last week new figures showed that in the third quarter of the financial year savings levels fell by £19 billion.  Hardly surprising when you...

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Tube manoeuvres

Category: My tuppence | 10th Dec 2008

The majority of people use the tube daily for commuting or if not; everyone has experienced what it is like to be packed in like a sardine on one.

A discussion developed with my flat mates about our tube experiences of the day, how we...

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Shock advertising is lazy advertising

Category: My tuppence | 09th Dec 2008

I don't think I'm a prude, but I do think the latest road safety seat belt campaign is repugnant.

If you haven't seen it, it's the one where you view the impact on the internal organs of  not wearing a seat belt; ribs crack and...

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Don't tell your friends you shop at Lidl

Category: My tuppence | 05th Dec 2008

If you do, you’ll get the Mickey taken out of you.  I know I do.

Therefore, to be a Lidl customer requires a degree of commitment; a commitment which I believe Lidl themselves have not yet unlocked.

Before I committed...

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Shopping malls make you stupid - fact

Category: My tuppence | 04th Dec 2008

Whenever a new shopping centre like Westfield opens, we find ourselves compelled to visit just to see what it’s like.

Well, what it’s like is pretty much the same as all of the others. An essentially soulless,...

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